Dana Love

Dr. Dana Love is a technology veteran with over 30 years of experience, active in Bitcoin and blockchain since 2011. Love holds a PhD in economics (The University of Glasgow, highest honors), an MBA in marketing (Harvard Business School, Baker Scholar), and a BS in physics (University of Richmond, Phi Beta Kappa.) Dr. Love's journey in technology began at a young age, coding in MORTRAN and ALGOL68G. His early efforts include building the first cloud-based ERP system in the mid-90s, a groundbreaking development at the time. He also played a pivotal role in developing the world's first carrier-grade VoIP and unified communications platforms at GTE, now Verizon. His work in big data and AI systems as president of an Oracle partner was also a significant milestone in his career. His contributions to big data, machine learning, AI, blockchain, and VoIP have been widely recognized and written about in Wired, Oracle’s Profit Magazine, the Financial Times, and Telephony Magazine. Love’s economics research is in game theory and public policy. His 2004 dissertation Essays on Liquidity in Financial Markets suggested a policy role for lenient central-bank lending during financial disruptions, and his more recent research studies the impact of blockchain and big data on emerging economies. He has won a variety of awards, including twice as a finalist in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalist, twice on the INC500 five times on the INC5000, Top Forty Under 40 (where he was called "a mathematical genius"), the Financial Times Global Telecoms Award for Internet Technology, and the ADC Engineering Excellence Award. Love is currently the President of PoobahAI and a core contributor to Layer 1 blockchain Andromeda Protocol.